Pro-tip: DO NOT EVER FLY THROUGH AMERICA
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Yeah, had a similar experience with American rules being much more strict than the rest of the world's. The problem's not just new York.
It was in the UK they took it off me. I don’t know if it was going through security in a small airport in the US versus an international airport in the UK, but it was patently obvious what the medicine was, and there’s not really any difference between having human milk for a baby and cow’s milk for a baby, being transported in baby bottles.
I once spent 20 hours in Detroit getting my flight delayed (one hour at a time). The flight was to Green Bay, roughly a 10-12 hour drive, around Lake Michigan.
I had a similar experience in another NY airport going to Boston. 16 hour delay, actually getting on the plane before being taken off and being told to go to different gates multiple times, including one time back to the gate the flight was originally supposed to leave from, and then once finally on a plane which was going, we had to wait for an engineer who was traveling to Boston.
I think it’s a few hour drive between the two cities so I don’t really understand why there wasn’t like a replacement bus service.
The only NY airport I don’t remember having a quite horrible experience in was Newark, but the only thing I remember about it was getting free shoe laces.